ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
Right Temporoparietal Junction Involvement in Autonomic Responses to the Suffering of Others: A Preliminary Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study.
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- Cognitive control: exploring the causal role of the rTPJ in empathy for pain mediated by contextual information.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of altered emotional responsivity to infant stimuli in mothers who use substances.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- The neural mechanisms of identifiable victim effect in prosocial decision-making.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Empathy for others versus for one's child: Associations with mothers' brain activation during a social cognitive task and with their toddlers' functioning.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Empathy and Anxiety in Young Girls with Fragile X Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Self-Conscious Emotions and the Right Fronto-Temporal and Right Temporal Parietal Junction.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Self-transcendent experiences as promoters of ecological wellbeing? Exploration of the evidence and hypotheses to be tested.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Utility of Physiological Measures in Assessing the Empathic Skills of Incarcerated Violent Offenders.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Functional neuroimaging studies have emphasized distinct networks for social cognition and affective aspects of empathy. However, studies have not considered whether substrates of social cognition, such as the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ), play a role in affective responses to complex empathy-related stimuli. Here, we used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to test whether the right TPJ contributes to psychophysiological responses to another person's emotional suffering. We used a theory of mind functional localizer and image-guided TMS to target the sub-region of the right TPJ implicated in social cognition, and measured autonomic and subjective responses to an empathy induction video. We found evidence that TMS applied at 1 Hz over the right TPJ increased withdrawal of parasympathetic nervous system activity during the empathy induction (
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